Tag: Listen

• A Long Talk with My Dog – the best way to begin the New Year.

  Floey jumped down from the couch, stretched her whole body, and sauntered over to me. I was sitting at my desk. She plopped herself down right next to me. But instead of resuming her nap, she looked up at me and asked, “What are you doing, Mom? You look like you’re just staring off into […]

  Marian

  January 10, 2019

  God’s Love, Life’s Challenges, New Year, Reflections

  Floey, God’s love, groomer, haircut, inspiration, Listen, Love of God, New Year’s Resolution, patience, peace, reflections, small talk, special word

• When and Why I gave up my Gun

  

    It was the summer of 1991. Mim and I were still living in Chicago, but we spent quite a bit of time in Cambridge that summer. It was the year my dad died, and we spent most weekends throughout the summer at the farmhouse, sorting through all my parents’ belongings. My mom had died […]

  Marian

  January 12, 2016

  Life’s Challenges, Reflections

  22, 22 rifle, 7 Habits, century-old farmhouse, different perspectives, dream house, giving up a gun, gun, gun ownership, keeping a gun, learn to listen, Listen, Listen Understand Act, playing cowboys and Indians, remodeled farmhouse, remodeling project, resolve our differences, rifle, Stephen Covey, summer of 1991, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Understand